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2024 New Payment Engine
by | Feb 16, 2024 | Administration, Billing, EHR, PM, Product Updates
Criterions is happy to announce our new 2024 payment engine! It's all dedicated to helping increase your revenue and grow your organization. For more information or to have your questions answered, please fill out the form below and a member of our team will be in...
ONC’s Security Risk Assessment Tool
by | Jan 10, 2024 | EHR, Industry Insights, PM
ONC releases a new version of Security Risk Assessment Tool (Version 3.4). The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) developed the SRA Tool to help small- and medium-sized healthcare...
Direct Messaging with Criterions EHR
by | Dec 16, 2023 | EHR, Messaging-and-Communication
The Basics of Direct Messaging with Criterions EHR Direct Messaging allows for communication across disparate platforms. Nationally renowned professionals and organizations have recommended the usage of Direct because it is safe, simple to use, and reasonably...
Webinar: New Credit Card Integration
by | Oct 31, 2023 | Administration, EHR
With Criterions and Bank of America Healthcare Payment Solution, your patients enjoy an easier payment experience, making paymets quickly and securely with a variety of payment methods. You'll enjoy an all-in-one payment solution including managing payments and...
Inventory Tracking with Criterions
Did you know Criterions offers inventory management? Are you an orthopedist or physical therapist who supplies durable medical equipment or braces? Are you a dermatologist selling over the counter skin care products? Criterions integrated inventory tracking...
What is Information Blocking?
by | Sep 22, 2023 | EHR
HHS-OIG announced their final decision on information blocking penalties. Any individual or entity that has committed information blocking will be subject up to a $1 million dollar penalty per violation. So what is information blocking? Per the HealthIt.gov website,...
Streamline Your EHR with Automation Tools
by | Sep 22, 2023 | EHR
Criterions has various features and automation tools in the EHR that can improve efficiency, reduce costs, and assist with understaffing issues at any medical practice. They also help to enhance health outcomes and increase provider and patient satisfaction. If you’re...
Webinar: 2023 Texting Enhancements
by | Sep 8, 2023 | EHR, EHR Tab, Messaging-and-Communication, Product Updates
In this webinar series, The Criterions Team showed the benefits of automatic texting appointment reminders and how that can save your staff time managing schedules and ultimately, increasing your practice's or business's revenue. With Criterions Texting Appointment...
Exchanging Patient Information
by | Aug 15, 2023 | EHR
Industry Standard for Exchanging Patient Information Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture (CCDA), is a standard format for exchanging clinical patient information between healthcare providers and organizations electronically. The CCDA standard was developed by...
Webinar: Streamlining Clinical Workflow
by | May 18, 2023 | EHR, EHR Tab, Product Updates
We showed our customers tools in the EHR that will improve the functionality and streamline multiple processes with the use of automation to help your practice offer patients the best possible healthcare experience. This includes creating "order sets" to make an...
Why your Office Should be Using Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
by | May 10, 2023 | EHR
Multi-Factor Authentication is a process that is used to verify a user’s identity by using a second method of authentication in addition to the username and password. After a user logs in using their regular credentials, the system will send a one-time password to the...
Criterions Patient Portal
by | Apr 26, 2023 | EHR, Industry Insights, PM
What is a Patient Portal and How Does It Help Medical Practices? A patient portal is a secure online website that gives patients convenient 24-hour access to personal health information from anywhere with an Internet connection. Using a secure username and password,...
Important Key Reporting
by | Apr 18, 2023 | EHR
Why Understanding Key Reports Are So Important Running reports regularly gives you a complete view into the revenue cycle of your practice. You can use reporting to improve processes, spot trends, and identify issues that may hinder revenue collection. It's important...
Webinar: Criterions Patient Portal Benefits
by | Mar 29, 2023 | EHR, Product Updates
In this webinar series, we dove deep into the Criterions patient portal and how it not only benefits your patients, but can also help lessen the workload for your office staff. If you have questions of how to enable the Patient Portal and receive your unique portal...
Case Study: NY Firefighter Heart & Lung
by | Mar 7, 2023 | EHR, Industry Insights, PM
How Criterions helps the New York Firefighter Heart & Lung Institute care for 9/11 First Responders Background Robert Brown started his career as a New York Firefighter in 1996 and worked his way up as Lieutenant at the New York Fire Department, dedicating his...
What is Practice Management Software
by | Feb 23, 2023 | EHR, Industry Insights, PM
What is Practice Management Software? Practice management involves the decisions, actions and resources that ensure the day-to-day operations of your medical practice. Managing a healthcare practice can be arduous and time-consuming. In a single day, physicians and...
Why you should become FHIR API compliant
by | Feb 8, 2023 | EHR, Industry Insights
What is FHIR API? As part of the 21st Century Cures Act, signed by Congress in 2016, a data standard called the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource was created and supported by HL7 International. The intricacy of healthcare data was taken into consideration when...
Why eFax Modules are Essential
by | Jan 18, 2023 | EHR
Criterions eFax HIPPA Compliant Module There’s a high chance you are still sending faxes daily, which means you must have reasonable safeguards to ensure they are Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) eFax compliant and that all Protected Health...